Before people built #snowshoes, nature provided examples. Several animals, most …

Before people built #snowshoes, nature provided examples. Several animals, most notably the snowshoe hare, had evolved over the years with oversized feet enabling them to move more quickly through deep snow. The origin and age of snowshoes are not precisely known, although historians believe they were invented from 4,000 to 6,000 years ago, probably starting in Central Asia British archaeologist Jacqui Wood hypothesized that the equipment interpreted to be the frame of a backpack of the Chalcolithic mummy Ötzi was actually part of a snowshoe. Strabo wrote that the inhabitants of the Caucasus used to attach flat surfaces of leather under their feet and that its inhabitants used round wooden surfaces, something akin to blocks, instead. However, the "traditional" webbed snowshoe as we know it today had direct origins to North American indigenous people, e.g., the Huron, Cree, and so forth.[3] Samuel de Champlain wrote, referencing the Huron and Algonquin First Nations, in his travel memoirs (V.III, pg. 164), "Winter, when there is much snow, they (the Indians) make a kind of snowshoe that are two to three times larger than those in France, that they tie to their feet, and thus go on the snow, without sinking into it, otherwise they would not be able to hunt or go from one location to the other". In 2016, Italian scientists reported "the oldest snowshoe in the world" discovered in the Dolomites and dated to between 3800 and 3700 B.C.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowshoe

在人類開始製造 #雪鞋 之前，大自然已提供了樣品。#白靴兔 等一些典型動物，在長期進化後長出超大尺寸的腳，這使得他們可以在較深積雪的地方更快速的活動。

雖然歷史學家們相信雪鞋在4000到6000年前可能在中亞地區就已經被發明，但無法確切得知最早起源的年代。英國考古學杰奎·伍德猜測，之前所發現的銅石並用時代的木乃伊冰人奧茨被認為是背包框架的工具其實是雪鞋的一部分。斯特拉波也曾經記述高加索居民會將皮革的平坦的一面綁在他們的腳上，或者是使用類似的圓形木質材料來替代。但我們現在所說的“傳統”使用繃網的雪鞋是直接起源於北美比如休倫人，克里人等原住民。薩繆爾·德·尚普蘭在他的旅行回憶錄這種寫道：“在冬季，降雪特別多的時候，他們（印第安人）會製作一種比在法國使用的大兩到三倍的雪鞋。他們會把雪鞋系在自己的腳上，這樣即使在雪地行走也不會陷入其中。否則他們就不能進行狩獵活動或者往返於兩地之間了。”

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